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[bluestar]

[angela58]

Oh my God these pics are amazing !😍😍😍

[sere sere]

Bellissime foto, grazie!!

Say what you will about the devil—his smoky eye is on point. Mr. MacPhisto at MSG 2

 

 

@joycesmith

[Achtung Gloria]

effettivamente quando cambia look e diventa più "scenico" , sta moooolto meglio.. si svecchia di parecchio..

[sere sere]

Ecco la trascrizione del discorso dell'ultima data della leg americana by Canadanne

 

Tuesday 3rd July 2018
Uncasville, Connecticut, USA
Mohegan Sun Arena

 

[Desire ends]

Bono: "Desire... greed... lust..." [points at audience members] "Oh, you're mad! ...deceit... vanity – all the essentials for a showman like myself. And of course... une licence... to just look... in the mirror." [approaches tablet computer on a stand; sees a devilish face superimposed over his own image]

MacPhisto: [admiringly] "Ohh. Ohhh!"

Crowd: [cheer]

MacPhisto: "Ha ha ha ha ha!" [sings] "Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man... of wealth and taste. I been around for many a long year... stole many a man's soul... to waste. I was there in Charlottesville, with the Nazi flags!" [gives Nazi salute] "...and the KKK. It was I spray-painted the First Lady's coat – I told her it was all the rage!" [sniggers]

Crowd: [whoops]

MacPhisto: "Pleased to meet you!  Hope you guess my name."

Crowd: [cheer]

MacPhisto: "The name... is MacPhisto, actually."

Crowd: [cheer]

MacPhisto: "Though sometimes, I dress up... as Mick Jagger." [sniggers]

Crowd: [cheer]

MacPhisto: "What a wonderful year it has been!" [wheezy laugh] "Lunatics on the left, lunatics on the right, and a whole other category. Warehousing children on the border!  Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Crowd: [laughter and applause]

MacPhisto: "I do like that, actually – that sounds kinda... sounds kind of nice. Putting children in cages is very... very Hansel and Gretel!" [sniggers]

Crowd: [laughter]

MacPhisto: "And for you? Fancy... clever... liberals here in Connecticut."

Crowd: [cheer]

MacPhisto: "Just remember – when you don't believe I exist, that's when I do... my best work."

[Acrobat begins]

MacPhisto: "Don't believe what you hear. Don't believe what you see. If you just close your eyes... you can feel... THE ENEMYYY!" [raises and waves his arms]

[SaraB]

E qui il video di Uncasville

[sere sere]

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"... all the essentials for a showman like myself."

 

 

 

Photo by Mary Juric

[voxy]

Bellissimo ...

(*sospiro*..)

[beppetorino]

Dio che astinenza... quanto manca?????

[voxy]

Dio che astinenza... quanto manca?????

Hehehe. ..
Beppe tu mi consoli...

Non sono l unica a sentirmi così. ..

E TU sei il più fortunatoooooo!

[sere sere]

Un articolo che parla (anche) di MacPhisto...

 

In 1993, on the Zooropa tour, Bono created a now-legendary character named MacPhisto: a deliberately over-the-top portrayal of the Devil as an aging, louche lounge lizard wearing gold lame pants and a pair of red velvet devil horns. MacPhisto was the embodiment of the imp of the perverse, phoning world leaders, sports figures, and unfortunate taxi dispatchers. MacPhisto would return in 2018, dressed in the top hat and sequined tuxedo jacket of a ringmaster, leaning into a tablet loaded with augmented reality software that superimposes a devilish visage, horns included, up on the big screen for everyone to see.

Although the segment would vary from show to show, the themes were always ripped straight out of the headlines. Borrowing liberally from the Rolling Stones, MacPhisto would often recite a reworded version of “Sympathy for the Devil”:

"Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man... of wealth and taste. I been around for many a long year... stole many a man's soul... to waste. I was there in Charlottesville, with the Nazi flags!" [gives Nazi salute] "...and the KKK. It was I spray-painted the First Lady's coat – I told her it was all the rage.”

Other topics close to MacPhisto’s heart included Stormy Daniels, Putin, G7, trade wars, and the administration’s Zero Tolerance policy at the borders (“Putting children in cages — very Hansel and Gretel, don't you think?"). In Washington, DC, he would read the room, and add, “I especially love . . . people using the Bible to justify anything they want . . . and whatever happens...don’t mention the . . . C-word: Comp-ro-mise! Oh, excuse my French.”

But they all ended with the warning: “It’s when you don’t believe I exist — that’s when I do my best work.” The vignettes worked best when they went to ugly extremes, because the entire point of the character is putting a face to what’s dark and nasty.

https://www.salon.co...afely-for-2018/